The organisers of the bi-ennial Lyon pool show are teaming up with UK partners to launch Piscine UK, a new show for the pool and spa
sectors that will be held at Birmingham’s NEC from next year.
Piscine UK 2013, from January 23 to January 25, is a joint venture between Lyon organisers, GL events and the UK based NEW events,
is aiming to provide the UK, Europe’s fourth biggest pool and spa market, with a professional even that targets international exhibitors,
say the organisers.
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The recent installation of a Heatstar Gemini heat pump, at the prestigious Rottingdean Place luxury residential estate in East Sussex, has demonstrated a year-on-year reduction
in energy use of 70% compared with the previous system, at the same time reducing gas consumption by 83%.
The pool store of Grayfox Swimming Pools, of Stow, Lincolnshire, has been completely destroyed in a fire that caused damage estimated at £250,000.
It took the crew of eight fire engines more than four hours to bring the fire under control as flames threatened to spread to the nearby family home.
Up against three lower-priced potential suppliers, Aquatrac was
the cover of choice for an Essex customer who wanted a quality
product at best value rather than lowest price.
The Aqua Ocean model was housed in a purpose-built, below
ground pit with removable stainless steel trays.
Aquatrac worked hand-in-glove with Patten Penguin, the
swimming pool contractor commissioned to build the pool as part
of an exclusive up-market residential development.
When it comes to breaking moulds – Aqua Platinum Projects is a company that knows no boundaries. Paving the way for a completely new generation of swimming pool specialists, APP is redefining the role for residential pool installers at the same time, elevating themselves into the premier division of property development. Once content with providing the water leisure cog in a lucrative construction wheel, the company is now reinventing that wheel; offering the complete turnkey package as project management consultants on entire construction projects.
Home spa and hot tub owners can now control their hot tubs through their mobile phones thanks to new SmartPhone
technology being introduced to top end spa models for 2012.
Cut throat price-slashing is costing the pool building industry
dear according to one of its leading figures, Stephen Booth,
managing director of Alba/SB Pools Ltd.
“The industry should be very concerned about the pricing that is going on,” warns Stephen. “Companies are slashing prices in order to win contracts at a no-profit price,” he says.
Stephen emphasises: “Price slashing is a short term strategy which ends up with too many companies closing and not being able to see contracts through – making life doubly difficult for the professional companies that are left.”
Leisure Industry Week strengthened its reputation as the leading meeting place for owners and operators of commercially based pool and wellness businesses with an upbeat show at Birmingham’s NEC last month.
One of seven zones under one common leisure banner, a vibrant Pool & Spa section generated a ripple of optimism with a positive buzz reporting healthy commercial sector order books well into 2012.
Particularly hard hit by the economic down turn, traditional residential liner pool building companies are being offered a Golden Goose by thermal-insulation panel pool specialists, Polypool Manufacturing.
When it comes to making bold statements – Nigel Rose, builder, turned self-proclaimed pool pioneer is not backward in coming forward.
“The swimming pool industry and the owners of Britain’s 300,000 pools are drowning in ignorance.” says Nigel Rose in his latest PR propaganda.
Traditionally slow to be persuaded to try new concepts, the pool sector has been reluctant to respond to the bold statements and claims by the inventor of the Thermapool insulation system.
